Today we drove south to Rockingham and took a 5 minute ferry ride over to Penguin Island. I know the photo is a sea lion and not a penguin but it is not the right weather to see penguins in the wild. But we saw a lot of birds mainly terns and Pelicans swimming in the water and flying around. It is only a very small island and we walked round it along the boardwalks. Stunning views again! At 2:30 we went to The Discovery Centre to watch the rescued penguins bein...

This morning we set off for Serpentine Dam south-East of Perth. This dam supplies the Perth area with water. The Serpentine Lake consists of two long fingers of water and flows out into the Peel River in Mandurah. By the time we arrived it was dinner time so we had a snack in the cafe and then walked down to the dam for a closer look. We then went to the Serpentine Falls in the National Park where the water flows down into a pool where people could swim althoug...

Went to Hilary's first and had a huge milkshake. This snack bar had a vast selection of different flavours and I had honeycomb. Mick was looking at all the boats for sale but as he gets seasick I don't think it would be a good idea! Next we went to a shopping centre called Westfield to buy an 18th birthday card for one of the nephews. After lunch we drove to the coast and Burns Beach which is North Perth. It was very windy on the coast so it was a pleasant temp...

It was Labour Day in WA today so it was bank holiday. This morning we drove into Busselton and went to The Goose for a drink. The Goose is on the beach front and looks out onto the sea and the jetty. A lovely view again! We set off for Perth about 1:15 and the traffic was pretty bad. So we took the coast road as much as we could to avoid the hordes and eventually arrived at Mandurah. As we hadn't had lunch we found a water side restaurant and had fish and chips....

I always thought that the Sabbath day was for resting. Wrong! Today we have been working on the building site ie the new house. Mick helped Vylic to level the floor in the garage ready for concreting so the house can be made secure when all the windows are in. There is a space between the garage and the fence which gives access to any undesirables so Karen and I carried some of the spare bricks and stacked them in the space to block it off. These bricks were not...